New Orleans

Navarre, FL

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June 10th 2009
Yesterday we left Sulphur, Louisiana at 10:57 a.m. and crossed the Mississippi at 1:16 p.m. and continued in to Baton Rouge and finally into New Orleans at 2:40...it was raining lightly and 88 degrees. We stayed at my junior high and high school friend's beautiful historic civil war home in the Garden District. We swam in her pool and toured her other home next door which was the union army headqu ... read more

North America » United States » Florida » Pensacola

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Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more